From the Journal of Elion Karsis
Written without date. Margins burned thin.
Christianity claims eternity, yet it is young.
I was raised among archivists who measured history in ink and bone, not reverence. When I look at the record plainly, the distance between Christ and Muhammad is not vast. Six centuries. Less than the lifespan of some vampires who still walk the courts above me. Less than the memory of stones in this city.
If God required correction once, why would He stop?
Christianity arrives and calls itself final. Then Islam follows swiftly—structured, disciplined, corrective in tone. A refinement, perhaps. A response to excess, to fracture, to misinterpretation. If God sent Islam, then Christianity was insufficient. If Christianity was insufficient, then truth is not fixed—it is patched.
That troubles me more than disbelief.
Because patches imply failure.
By 1489, the gap between Islam and now is again only centuries. Shorter still, in the scale of claimed eternity. If God corrects His world through revelation, then the pattern suggests we should expect another intervention.
Instead, we received the Forever Night.
If this darkness was sent, then it is not punishment—it is doctrine.
If it was allowed, then silence is the message.
And if it was neither sent nor corrected, then revelation has ended.
That leaves only two possibilities.
Either Islam, like Christianity, was provisional—and the correction failed.
Or the Forever Night is not a test, not a scourge, not an accident—but the final state.
If Islam was meant to correct Christianity, and Forever Night followed anyway, then faith does not prevent catastrophe. It merely narrates it after the fact.
That realization terrifies believers more than atheism ever could.
Because it means God does not refine toward mercy.
He refines toward outcome.
Muslims say God is just. Christians say God is loving. Both say He is intentional.
Then answer me this:
Did He see this city drown in blood and brass and decide it was acceptable?
Did He see the Night take children, lovers, ordinary lives—and call it balance?
Or did He stop speaking altogether, leaving us to mistake inertia for divinity?
If Islam was sent as correction, then correction has failed.
If Forever Night was sent, then revelation has become hostile.
And if neither was sent—
then humanity has been arguing with echoes,
while the machinery of the world grinds on without witness.
In that case, belief is not a shield.
It is a delay.
And delays are how systems kill you
without ever admitting intent.